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Dewey Class	519.2
Title	Probability and Information Theory ([EBook] :) : Proceedings of the International Symposium at McMaster University, Canada, April, 1968 / / edited by M. Behara, K. Krickeberg, J. Wolfowitz.
Added Personal Name	Behara, M. editor.
	Krickeberg, K. editor.
	Wolfowitz, J. editor.
Other name(s)	SpringerLink (Online service)
Publication	Berlin, Heidelberg : : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : : Imprint: Springer, , 1969.
Physical Details	IV, 260 p. : online resource.
Series	Lecture Notes in Mathematics 0075-8434 ; ; 89
ISBN	9783540360988
Contents note	On different characterizations of entropies -- The structure of capacity functions for compound channels -- Boolean algebraic methods in Markov chains -- Maxima of partial sums -- Series expansions for random processes -- Glivenko-Cantelli type theorems for distance functions based on the modified empirical distribution function of M. Kac and for the empirical process with random sample size in general -- On the continuity of Markov processes -- Some mathematical problems in statistical mechanics -- Asymptotic behaviour of the average probability of error for low rates of information transmission -- On the optimum rate of transmitting information -- A necessary and sufficient condition for the validity of the local ergodic theorem -- Recent results on mixing in topological measure spaces -- Convergence in probability and allied results -- Applications of almost surely convergent constructions of weakly convergent processes -- Random processes defined through the interaction of an infinite particle system -- The central limit theorem and ?-entropy -- Maximum probability estimators with a general loss function.
System details note	Online access to this digital book is restricted to subscription institutions through IP address (only for SISSA internal users)
Internet Site	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BFb0079113
Links to Related Works	Subject References: Mathematical Statistics . Mathematics . Popular Science, general . Popular works . Probabilities . Probability and Statistics in Computer Science . Probability theory and stochastic processes . Authors: Behara, M. . Krickeberg, K. . Wolfowitz, J. . Corporate Authors: SpringerLink (Online service) . Series: Lecture Notes in Mathematics . Classification: 519.2 .

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